The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-11
BEHIND THE BARS.
THE 4 TTORNEY GENERAL AND MR.
SCOTT Still THE CI7Y'S GUESTS.

They Spend sunday Comfortably In jail
4 Large Number of visitors Pay Their
Respscts-Ihe Record In the Habess Cor
pus Case Completed General opinion
Announcement Ayers and Mr.. John
Scott Commonwealth Attorney OF
Fauouier county. are still inmates OF the
CITY basiile. and spent Sunday within It's
walls Mr.. Ayers, who is guest OF the
Exchange Hotel, has Teen furnished regu-
larly bv Mr. Darlington, the proprietor
with meals, bedding, servants, and any
luxury he might desire and could be had,
to enable him to pass away his time as
pleasantly as possible Mr.. Scott was
stopping at FOrd's, but that establish
ment, we learn, declined to supply his
meals at the jail, on the grounds that
they could not send out meals. Learn
ing Of this, Mr.. Darlington agreed TO.
furnish him also with whatever he wished
from the Exchange.
II does not seem likely therefore, that
the distinguished prisoners Will suher
either for quantity or quality OF tood,
nor for anv of the comforts OF life. sun
dov fbev received a number OF visitors,
prominent among whom were members
of fine newspaper fraternity, and especial
IN from correspondents of Northern
papers. who seem TO take great interest IN
the case. By means of the attention
shown them and the interviews to which
they were subjected, the minds OF the
two State officers were constantly Occu-
pied. and they managed 20 get through
The day very comfortably.
COMPLETING THE RECORD.
Yesterday morning Attorney-General
Ayers. accompanied by an official OF the
iail. went TO the United States court
room. and went hard to work complet-
ING the record i'm the hGbcgs corpus case,
which he will present to one OF the
justices of the Supreme Court at Wash
mrton 1t makes a document OF l2O
pages. and is a full presentation oi the
case from the beginning Its main pur-
port is i'm substance, that the law when
he the Attorney General, attempted to
execute was law passed by the state
legislature. that he was legally
elected and duly qualified officer
of the State. sworn 10 carry out
us laws whenever called upon
+ to do so. that the law had never been de-
clared unconstitutional, aud that there
fore Judge Bond had no jurisdiction IN
I the matter. and had no right TO enJon
him from doing that which his oath and
official duty TO the State required him 10
do. therefore he contended that Judge
Bond throughout is acting without author
itv. and has Illegally deprived him of his
liberty. This record was taken 10 WASH,
inqton by Mr.. c. Y. Meredith, OF counsel
for the State in this case, yesterday even
ing. where he will meet today with
F Colonel W w. Gordon, and together they
will present the papers to one Of the JUS
/ tices of the supreme Court.
AT THE GOVERNORS OFFICE.
After finishing up this work Mr. Ayers
returned TO iail. and while there received
"a message from the Governor that he
wished 10 see him. At once, accompanied
+ bv mis- usual Jail official 2s attendant, he
went up to the Capitol. There he was
met by q representative of the TIMES,
Who remarked, why, sir what are you
doing out of Jail - "Well, the Governor
sent for me and ] suppose they were
afraid 20 keep me when he wanted TO
/ talk with me" lie then entered the
F Governors Office and was closeted with
/ the Chief Executive for some time.
WHAT MR.. SCOTT SAYS.
Mr.. John Scott was also seen by a
. TIMES reporter and talked pleasantly
and uneservedly about his situation
Glow do you enjoy sleeping at the
/ iaii ~ was asked.
"Wc are making out very well, came
the answer "Our meals are sent down
to ms from the Exchange Hotel, and the
proprietor of that hotel has sent us beds.
The iail officers are very cOnsiderate,
and Keep our quarters neat and clean
when will you get out?'
"That do not know. The petition
for writ of hd5eqs corpus is being pre-
pared. and II the Supreme Court Of the
United states decides in our favor, why
then it will be all right
Later ON Mr. Scott said st. Peter
was released from Imprisonment by an
angel. and l ann hoping that the guardian
angel of the Constitution will come TO
our assistance
GENERAL OPINION.
of persons yesterday. it was evident that
general opinion was not a unit on the
subject of the arrest Of these gentlemen.
While there prevailed to considerable eS-
tent a feeling of indignation that re-
prcsentatiyes of Virginia should have been
placed in the common Jail by order
of a Federal Judge, still the more
conservative and thoughtful did not
think that the Supreme Court would
reverse Judge Bond, or that the release
of Messrs. Ayers and Scott could be ef-
fected by writ of h0beas corpus. II
opens a very delicate question" remark
ed one gentleman, a lawyer and e1-mem-
ber of the Legislature at appears to
me that the only question that will come
up in the habeas corpus case will be
whether or not the gentlemen were in
contempt If it is decided that they
are they must purge themselves OF the
contempt, if not they will be released
But in all likelihood the question of juris-
tion will not be considered and il only
that of contempt il, it is probable that